About the Authors

Jianfang Chen

Affiliation Department of Veterinary Sciences and Neuroscience Graduate Program, University of Wyoming, Laramie, Wyoming, United States of America

Eileen Marks

Contributed equally to this work with: Eileen Marks, Jonathan H. Fox

Affiliation Department of Veterinary Sciences and Neuroscience Graduate Program, University of Wyoming, Laramie, Wyoming, United States of America

Barry Lai

Affiliation Argonne National Laboratory, Lemont, Illinois, United States of America

Zhaojie Zhang

Affiliation Department of Zoology and Physiology, University of Wyoming, Laramie, Wyoming, United States of America

James A. Duce

Affiliations Mental Health Research Institute, Parkville, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, School of Molecular and Cellular Biology, the Faculty of Biological Sciences, University of Leeds, Leeds, United Kingdom

Linh Q. Lam

Affiliation Mental Health Research Institute, Parkville, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Irene Volitakis

Affiliation Mental Health Research Institute, Parkville, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Ashley I. Bush

Affiliation Mental Health Research Institute, Parkville, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Steven Hersch

Affiliation MassGeneral Institute for Neurodegenerative Disease, Charlestown, Massachusetts, United States of America

Jonathan H. Fox

Contributed equally to this work with: Eileen Marks, Jonathan H. Fox

jfox7@uwyo.edu

Affiliation Department of Veterinary Sciences and Neuroscience Graduate Program, University of Wyoming, Laramie, Wyoming, United States of America

Competing Interests

Co-authors Ashley I. Bush and James A. Duce are PLOS ONE Editorial Board members. Ashley Bush has shares in Prana Biotechnology Ltd, Mesoblast Ltd and Cogstate Ltd. This does not alter their adherence to all the PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: JHF. Performed the experiments: JC EM BL ZZ JAD LQL IV JHF. Analyzed the data: JC EM JAD JHF. Wrote the manuscript: JAD AIB JHF. Provided discussion and advice on experiments: SH.